Definitions for "hominid"
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characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures.
Any animal of the family Hominidae, including modern man as well as extinct species of the genera Homo and Australopithecus.
( Homo : Man ): man-like fossils; any member of the primate family Hominidae, including humans and their fossil ancesters.
homo, man] Humans and closely related primates; includes modern and fossil forms, such as the australopithecines, but not the apes.
Term used to describe creatures that are more than just apes, from pre-human bipeds to modern human beings.
one of a family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals including recent humans
a member of the family Hominidae, which includes humans.
The name implying to all human primates. Such examples include: Homo Sapiens (Wise man; Humans) Homo Habilis (Handy Man) Australopithecus
An organism that belongs in the family Hominidae. Hominids are generally recognized using the criterion of upright locomotion (bipedalism).
A member of the Hominidae family.
Any primate of the family Hominidae, which includes modern humans (Homo Sapiens) and their extinct precursors.
a primate of the family Hominidae
a member of the human family, as distinct from chimpanzees and other apes
a member of the human family, from the earliest ancestral forms that we find in the fossil record, to modern humans
a monophyletic subset of the hominoids, one whose members exhibited, among other things, a bipedal gate
an individual species within that family
A taxonomic group including modem humans and all ancestral species after the split with our closest relatives, the Chimpanzees. Homo erectus: 1.8 - approx. .4 MYA. Probably the first hominid to live outside of Africa. H. Erectus had a moderately large brain (800-1200 cc.), made tools and probably fire, was tall. Examples include WT 18000 (the "boy") and Beijing cave fossils. Homo sapiens: Humans, including Archaic, Neandertals, and Anatomically modem populations.
human ancestor
any family of two legged primates, including man.
Primate group that includes humans and all fossil forms leading to man only.
Hominids (family Hominidae) are the group that includes people and our close ancestors and relatives.
A primate of the group that includes humans and their ancestors.
A primate who walks on two legs. Monkeys, apes and humans are all primates, but only humans are hominids.
Any primate species that bears a close anatomical resemblance and some behavioral resemblance to modern man.
A hominid is any member of the biological family Hominidae (the "great apes"), including the extinct and extant humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. (This classification has been revised several times in the last few decades. See the Hominidae and history of hominoid taxonomy articles.)